Wind motor



R. DORSH WIND MOTOR Aprl 6 192s..

Filed Feb. 9, 1924 2 Sheets-Shale INVENToR. /l/oozf o/YSH.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Apr. 6, 1926.

UNITEDI RUDOLF Doesn, or NEW YORK, N. Y. f

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Application mea retruary 9, 1924. sel-iai lNo.; 691,718.

To all whom t may' concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLF Donsii, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of NewYork and State of New VYork,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VfindrMoy driven element.

tors, of which the following is aspecifica tion. ,Y

This invention relates to wind motors 'and more particularlyto a novel and improvedv power vgenera-ting mechanism for driving machinery and the like especially under conditions where air vcurrents prevail.

One of the objects of my l'nvention is to provide a novel and improved wind motor having a plurality of radial blades including provision for simultaneously raifigling said blades to increase or decrease the rapidity of rotation and the operation of the shaft connected to the engine or power Another object of my invention is to prof vide a wind motor ofthe class above describedincluding a plurality of radial vanesy including means for rotating lsaid -vanes on their axes vsimultaneoi'isly Ywhile the engine or power driven element is rotating 4and without disconnectingv any of the mechanism.

vToenable others skilled in the art to fully comprehend the underlying'features of my invention that they may embody the same in the various modications in structure and relation contemplated, drawings depicting a preferred form have been annexed as a part of this. disclosure and in such drawings, similar referencev characters denote corresponding parts throughout all the views, of which,

Figure 1 is a sectional view. Y

Figure 1a is a detail view showing the adjusting gearing for the horizontal shaft on which the vanes are mounted.

kFigure 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a ysectional view showing thel relation of the eccentric through the vertical reciprocating shaft. l

Figure 4 is a further section the line 1 -4 of Figure l. K

Figure 5 is a detail view taken von the line 5er-'5 ofFgurei. Y

Fi' ure 6 is a rear view of the varies, the gearing being shown iii-section 'f taken on e echar 31. The said casting and its conical' support'preferably in the form of a hollow .casting having ya hanged, bottom 7, rigidly-secured or supported on the `floor.- ing 5 at a'point where the mechanism is toY be installed. Extending upwardly through the bottom 8 ofthe casting, is a sleeve housing). A sleeve 10 within the sleeve'hou's-v V ingreceives avertical reciprocating shaft 11 of any desired length, the lowery end of the said `'ieciprocating. shaft being nprovided with a universaljoint 12 forv connection to a connecting (rod 13, attached to the fly wheel (notshowii) or mechanism to be operated and driven. On the lower end of the sleeve 10, the gear 14C is providedwhich is adaptedto mesh with a gear 15, keyed on the` shaft' 16 and rotated'by the operating handle 17 as clearly shown by Figure 1 of the drawings; Under ordinaryv conditions, the sleeve housing and sleeve may rotate within the conical casting and therefore a threaded lockbolt 18 is provided, whereby the position ofthe horizontal'shaft carrying the vane may be set to obtain the maximum power in the manner set vforth below.

The sleeve housing 9 carries an annular plate 20, Iwhich is keyed thereto by ascrew or other fasteningelement 21. The vertical reciprocating-shaft and-its sleeve extends upwardly through the platey'QO and Within the cylinder housing 23 mounted on the plate 20 as shown. The cylinder housing 23 supports a horizontal sleeve 24 and shaft 25, said sleeve havingl an eccentric-26, positionedAA the efficiency of the rotation of the sleeve 24and the mechanism carried thereby.

Keyed to thesleeve 24, 1 have provided a vane supporting' castngSO formed with eel1-arV is provided with a plurality of radial, aligned openings or apertures, which rc-` ceivo the stub shaft 32 that supports each of the frames 33 to which the vanes 34 are secured. The spacingl collars 35 are interposed between the collar 31 and the casting proper, it being observed particularly, from Figures 6 andV 7 that the stub shafts 32 are each formed with a gear 35. whereby the angularity of the vanes Si may be .adjusted as now to be described. Freely movable on the out-er end of the shaft 25, l have provided an enlarged disk 36, to which a plurality of rack bars 37 are keyed, the teeth of said rack bars being in engagement with the respective gears or pinions 35 of each of the frames, supporting the vanes. A-s-the disk 36 and the rack bars carried thereby are moved inwardly and outwardly, it will be seen that the vanes may be adjusted from the full line 'to the dotted line position., as sl'iown by Figure l, so that a greater surface of the vaines may be presented to the wind so as 'to increase the rapidity of rotation of the mechanism`n The inward and outward movement, Itherefore, of the disk 36 is controlled through the internally threaded worm gea-r 38 meshing with the wire wheel 38 on the short, vertical shaft 39 within the cylinder housing 28. The' outer end of the shaft 25 is threaded as indicated at 40, the lower end of the said shaft 39 having a pinion -il *keyed thereto, which is in mesh with a gear 4:2, mounted on the sleeve l0 so that asthe meshed gears lli, 15, are 'actuated, rotary motion will be imparted to the Apinion and gear 41, 42, to operate the worm 38. rlhe shaft 25, however, does not rotate but is supported on the tl-shaped follower 44, movable inwardly and outwardly `of the cylinder casing 23. lt will therefore be seen that the shaft 25 is somewhat in the nature of a feed screw, may be moved inwardly fand 'outwardly so that the disk 36 .and the rack bars carried thereby will engage the `gears or pinions 35 to angle the vanes.V A cover plate i5 is internally threaded to engage the threads of the outer face of the casting 30 to prerventthe adinissionof dirt or foreign mattei' `to 'the stub shaft. supporting the frames and vanos The collar i8 isalso mounted on the sleeve 24 and is adapted to receive the threaded `ends 49 of a brace rod 50, `the `opj'iosite end of the brace rod being provided with a `hooked end 5l which engages -an eye 52 at a. point somewhat o'tl the center `of the vane so 'to vpermit of the adjustl'nent to the 'desired position through the vane adjusting mechanism above described lt `willfthus be seen from the above construction that while the mecha# nism is free to rotate on a vertical axis, the vane adjusting mechanism is entirely independent and docs not in any way alfort the operation of the lubricating shaft and the eccentric 2G, while the saine is being driven.

lWhile l shown a plurality ofirad'ial vanes of rectangular coniiguration, it will be understood that any other type of vane may be utilized for the same purpose and to that end, it will be observed that the rigid frames may also be varied for connection to the desired type of vanos to be used. The use to which the mechanism may be put is also of a varied nature, in that it may be installed on a sailing vessel as well as on a building, and consequently the size and materials entering into the construction as above described are purely relative and may be altered to suit the needs and the occasion.

`vllhile l have illustrated and Vdescribed my invention with some degree of particularity, l realize that in practice various alterations therein maybe made. l therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of the details of construction or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:-

l. In a wind motor, a vertical sleeve housing having a cylinder housing fixed on the upper end thereof, a vertical sleeve ournaled in the sleeve housing and projecting slightly beyond the ends of the latter, means associated with the lower end of the sleeve for facilitating manual turning of thev latter, a horizontal sleeve having vone end journaled in the upper :part of the cylinder :housing and having a wind wheel secured on its other end, said wind Wheel having axially rotatable radial vanes, a shaft sl'idable vlongitudi nally in the horizontal sleeve and having one end vportion exposed within the cylinder housing and its other end operatively eonnected to the vanos for causing axial rotation of the latter when said shaft is slid relative to the horizontal sleeve, operative connections in the cylinder housing between the exposed end `portion of said shaft and `the upper end ofthe vertical sleeve for effecting sliding of said shaft upon manual rotation of said vertical sleeve` and Vmeans within the cylinder `housing and extending downwardly ltln'ougl'i the vertical sleeve for transmitting power from rotation of the horizontal sleeve to desired niaohinery.

2. In a wind motor, a vertical sleeve housing having a `cylinder housing fixed on the upper end thereof, a vertical sleeve journaled in the sleeve housing and projecting slightly beyond the endsof the `rlatter, means associated with the lower end of the sleeve forl leo one end portion exposed within the cylinder housing and its/other end operatively connected to the vanes for causing axial rotation of the latter when said sliaftis slid relative to the horizontal Sleeve, operative connections inthe cylinder housing between the exposed end portion of said shaft `and the upper end of the vertical sleeve for effecting sliding of said shaft upon manual rotation of said vertical sleeve, and means within .the cylinder housing and extending downwardly lthrough the vertical sleeve for transmitting power from rotationy of the horizontal sleeve to desired machinery, a support in which said sleeve housing is mounted for axial 'rotation, and means engageable with the lower end of the sleeve housing for releasably hold-Y ing the same in any desired i'otarily adjust,- ed position.

3. In a Wind motor, a vertical sleeve housf Y ing having a cylinder housing fixed on the upper end thereof, a vertical sleeve journaled in the sleeve housing and projecting slightly beyond the ends of the latter, means associated with the lower end of the sleeve for able radialy vanes, i

facilitating manual turning of thek latter, a horizontal sleeve having one end `iournaled in the upper part of a cylinder housing and havingV a ,wind wheel secured on its end, said wind wheel having axially rotat-` tudinally in the horizontal sleeve and having one end portion exposed within the .cylinder housing and its other end operatively conother a shaft slidable longi- Y nected to the vanes for causing axial rotation of the latter when said shaft isslid relative to the horizontal sleeve, operative connections inthe cylinder housing between the exposed end portion of said shaft and the upper end of the vertical ,sleeve for effecting sliding of said shaftupon manual rotation of said vertical sleeve, and means within the cylinder housing'and extending downwardly through the vertical sleeve for transmitting to desired machinery,

tical shaft in the cylinder housing having itsv lower end rotatably geared to the upper threaded engagement with the exposed portion of the slidable shaft and operatively connected to the upperend of said substan` tially vertical shaft.

In testimony whereof I affix In signature.

RUDOLF DORS .[L-SJ power from rotation of the horizontalV sleeve i said operative connection betWeenthe slidable shaft and the vertical `sleeve embodying a substantially ver.l

hend of the vertical sleeve and a gear having f 

